"Asian and Chinese American judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit<br> 1979—President Jimmy Carter appoints Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Valdemar Aguirre Cordova as the first Mexican American federal judge in the U.S. District of Arizona.<br> 1980—Cecil B. Patterson, Jr. becomes the first black judge appointed to the Maricopa County Superior Court. In September 1995 he became the first black judge appointed to the Arizona Court of Appeals, Division One.<br> 1981—President Ronald Reagan nominates Arizona Court of Appeals Judge Sandra Day O'Connor to be the first woman justice to sit on the United States Supreme"
"County Superior Court serving from 1975 to 1979 when she was elevated to the Arizona State Court of Appeals. She served on the Court of Appeals-Division One until 1981 when she was appointed to the Supreme Court by President Ronald Reagan. On July 7, 1981, Reagan – who had pledged during his 1980 presidential campaign to appoint the first woman to the Court – announced he would nominate O'Connor as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court to replace the retiring Potter Stewart. O'Connor received notification from President Reagan of her nomination on the day prior to the announcement and"
"Sandra Day O'Connor Sandra Day O'Connor (born March 26, 1930) is a retired Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, who served from her appointment in 1981 by Ronald Reagan until her retirement in 2006. She was the first woman to serve on the Court. Prior to O'Connor's tenure on the Court, she was an elected official and judge in Arizona serving as the first female Majority Leader of a state senate as the Republican leader in the Arizona Senate. Upon her nomination to the Court, O'Connor was confirmed unanimously by the Senate. On July 1, 2005,"
"to serve as the first female justice of the United States Supreme Court. When Justice O'Connor was nominated for the Supreme Court in 1981, she relied on attorneys from the firm to help her prepare for her confirmation hearings. When Justice O'Connor joined the Supreme Court in September 1981, she hired Fennemore Craig attorney, Ruth McGregor as her first law clerk. In 1974, Fennemore Craig hired its first two female attorneys, Ruth McGregor and Toni McClory. The firm subsequently became one of the first law firms in Arizona to elect females as shareholders. Ms. McGregor later served 11 years as"
"Smith also was credited with playing a major role in Mr. Reagan's nomination of Sandra Day O'Connor, to be the first woman on the United States Supreme Court. Prior to O'Connor's appointment to the Court, she was an elected official and judge in Arizona serving as the first female majority leader in the United States as the Republican leader in the Arizona Senate. President Ronald Reagan formally nominated O'Connor on August 19, 1981. On September 21, 1981, O'Connor was confirmed by the U.S. Senate with a decision of 99–0. Judicial analyst Steven Brill gave Smith credit for gaining control of"
"Sandra Day O'Connor United States Courthouse The Sandra Day O'Connor United States Courthouse is a courthouse at 401 West Washington Street in Phoenix, Arizona. Pursuant to , enacted by the United States Congress, it is named after Sandra Day O'Connor, who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from September 21, 1981 to January 31, 2006. The building is home to the United States District Court for the District of Arizona, and also hosts Circuit Judges William C. Canby, Jr.; Michael Daly Hawkins; Mary H. Murguia; Mary M. Schroeder; Andrew D. Hurwitz; and Barry"
"on to become the first woman United States Attorney in the District of Arizona and Arizona's first woman federal judge.<br> 1961—Lorna Lockwood becomes the first woman Arizona Supreme Court Justice and goes on to become the first woman in the United States to be Chief Justice of a State Supreme Court.<br> 1962—The ""Arizona Bar Journal"" debuts.<br> 1965-Hayzel B. Daniels became the first African American judge in Arizona state history. His appointment became a national news story.<br> 1966—In a landmark ruling the United States Supreme Court overturns the conviction of Arizonan Ernesto Miranda, ruling that his confession was not voluntarily given"
"her final feature film role. ""First Monday in October"" was originally scheduled for a February 1982 release, but President Ronald Reagan's appointment of Sandra Day O'Connor as the first female Supreme Court justice on July 7, 1981, forced the film's release a month after the presidential nomination, in August 1981. The death of Stanley Moorehead, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, has created a vacancy on the high court. The president's appointee turns out to be Ruth Loomis, a staunch conservative from Orange County, California, who is confirmed as the first female Associate Justice. She and Associate Justice"
"Dana Fabe Dana Anderson Fabe (born March 29, 1951) was a member of the Alaska Supreme Court from March 1996 until her retirement in June 2016. She served three terms as the court's Chief Justice (2000–2003, 2006–2009, 2012–2015). She was the first woman appointed to the Alaska Supreme Court and the Alaska Supreme Court's first female Chief Justice. A native of Cincinnati, Ohio, she grew up in the city's Hyde Park neighborhood and attended The Seven Hills School. She attended Cornell University (BA 1973) and Northeastern University School of Law (JD 1976), before moving to Alaska in the 1970s. Following"
"Susie Sharp Susie Marshall Sharp (July 7, 1907 – March 1, 1996) was an American jurist who served as the first female chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court. She was not the first woman to head the highest court in a U.S. state, but is believed to be the first woman elected to such a post in a state, like North Carolina, in which the position is elected by the people separately from that of Associate Justice. In 1965, Lorna E. Lockwood became the first female chief justice of a state supreme court, but in Arizona, the Supreme"
"Shirley Hufstedler Shirley Ann Mount Hufstedler (August 24, 1925 – March 30, 2016) was an American lawyer and judge who served as the first United States Secretary of Education under President Jimmy Carter from November 30, 1979 to January 20, 1981. At the time of her secretarial appointment, she was the highest ranking woman in the federal judiciary, serving as a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Hufstedler was born Shirley Ann Mount on August 24, 1925, in Denver, Colorado. Her mother's side of the family emigrated to the United States"
"Court. In 1981, Sandra Day O'Connor was the first woman appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court. She received unanimous Senate approval. In 1982, she wrote the majority opinion in Mississippi University for Women v. Hogan. In 1992, O'Connor provided the vote needed in Planned Parenthood v. Casey to uphold the court's earlier decision. In 1999, O'Connor sided with the majority opinion in the sexual harassment case Davis v. Monroe County Board of Education that ruled the school board in question was indeed responsible for protecting a fifth-grade student from unwanted advances from another student. O'Connor retired from the court in"
"Florence Ellinwood Allen Florence Ellinwood Allen (March 23, 1884 – September 12, 1966) was an American judge. She was the first woman to serve on a state supreme court and one of the first two women to serve as a United States federal judge. In 2005, she was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame. Florence Allen was born on March 23, 1884 in Salt Lake City, Utah, the daughter of Clarence Emir Allen, Sr., a mine manager, and later U.S. Representative from Utah, and his wife Corinne Marie, née Tuckerman. She was one of seven children—five girls, one"
"Rebecca White Berch Rebecca White Berch (born 1951) is a former justice of the Arizona Supreme Court. On July 1, 2009, she began a five-year term as the court's Chief Justice, a position to which she was elected by her peers on the court. As chief justice, she succeeded Ruth McGregor. She concluded her service as Arizona's Chief Justice in July 2014 when she passed the gavel to Chief Justice Scott Bales. Berch had been a justice of the state's highest court since March 2002, when she was appointed to the court by Republican governor Jane Dee Hull. Justice Berch"
"Ruth Bader Ginsburg Ruth Bader Ginsburg (; born Joan Ruth Bader; March 15, 1933) is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Ginsburg was appointed by President Bill Clinton and took the oath of office on August 10, 1993. She is the second female justice (after Sandra Day O'Connor) of four to be confirmed to the court (along with Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, who are still serving). Following O'Connor's retirement, and until Sotomayor joined the court, Ginsburg was the only female justice on the Supreme Court. During that time, Ginsburg became more forceful with her"
"Supreme Court decision overruling previous authority. She died of cancer on October 27, 2004. Patricia A. Dean Patricia A. Dean (1949 – October 27, 2004) was an American attorney and a partner with the Arnold & Porter law firm in Washington, D.C.. She was a deputy clerk of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1978 to 1981, the first woman to serve in that position, and then served as a law clerk for Justice Byron White of the United States Supreme Court from 1982 to 1983. After graduating from J.E.B. Stuart High School in Fairfax, Virginia, Dean graduated from Georgetown University,"
"and was published in the autumn of 1965. In declining health after falling and breaking her hip, she died on September 12, 1966 in Waite Hill, Ohio, where she had been living with a distant cousin since her retirement. She was 82. Florence Ellinwood Allen Florence Ellinwood Allen (March 23, 1884 – September 12, 1966) was an American judge. She was the first woman to serve on a state supreme court and one of the first two women to serve as a United States federal judge. In 2005, she was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame. Florence Allen"
"the retirement of U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter, U.S. Senator Mark Begich recommended her as a possible successor in a letter to President Barack Obama. Dana Fabe Dana Anderson Fabe (born March 29, 1951) was a member of the Alaska Supreme Court from March 1996 until her retirement in June 2016. She served three terms as the court's Chief Justice (2000–2003, 2006–2009, 2012–2015). She was the first woman appointed to the Alaska Supreme Court and the Alaska Supreme Court's first female Chief Justice. A native of Cincinnati, Ohio, she grew up in the city's Hyde Park neighborhood and attended"
"Bar Association. Both Sarah and Thomas Sorin are buried at Evergreen Cemetery in Tucson. In 1985 Sarah Herring Sorin was admitted into the Arizona Women's Hall of Fame. In 1999, the Arizona Women Lawyers Association created an annual ""Sarah Sorin Award"". The state that produced the first woman to present a case unassisted to the United States Supreme Court also later produced the first woman Justice of the Supreme Court, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, and the first woman Chief Justice of a state supreme court, Lorna Lockwood. Sarah Herring Sorin Sarah Herring Sorin (January 15, 1861 – April 30, 1914)"
"Sarah Herring Sorin Sarah Herring Sorin (January 15, 1861 – April 30, 1914) was Arizona's first woman attorney and the first woman to try a case in front of the United States Supreme Court unassisted by a male attorney. Sorin practiced law with her father Colonel Herring in the firm ""Herring & Sorin"" initially in Tombstone, Arizona, and later in Tucson. After her father's death, Sorin moved to Globe, Arizona, where she became the attorney for the Old Dominion Copper Company and United Globe Mines. Sarah Sorin is a member of the Arizona Women's Hall of Fame. ""(See photo of"
"from April 1998- March 2002. She served as a justice of the Arizona Supreme Court in April 2002 - June 2005 before becoming Vice Chief Justice in June 2005. Justice Berch retired from the Supreme Court in September 2015. Rebecca White Berch Rebecca White Berch (born 1951) is a former justice of the Arizona Supreme Court. On July 1, 2009, she began a five-year term as the court's Chief Justice, a position to which she was elected by her peers on the court. As chief justice, she succeeded Ruth McGregor. She concluded her service as Arizona's Chief Justice in July"
"Sonia Sotomayor Sonia Maria Sotomayor (; born June 25, 1954) is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, appointed by President Barack Obama in May 2009 and confirmed in August 2009. She has the distinction of being its first justice of Hispanic descent and the first Latina. Sotomayor was born in The Bronx, New York City, to Puerto Rican-born parents. Her father died when she was nine, and she was subsequently raised by her mother. Sotomayor graduated ""summa cum laude"" from Princeton University in 1976 and received her J.D. from Yale Law School in 1979, where"
"women from practicing law was prohibited in the U.S. in 1971. In 1975, Julia Cooper Mack was appointed to the D.C. Court of Appeals, making her the first woman of color, and only the eighth woman total, to be appointed to a court of last resort. By 1993, 60 women had served on the highest court in forty states, the District, and the federal courts. As of 2001, women comprised 26.3% of the judgeships on state courts of last resort, 19.2% of federal district court judgeships, 20.1% of federal appellate judgeships, and as of 2018, 33.3% of the U.S. Supreme"
"discrimination was rampant in U.S. society and an all-male Supreme Court was generally skeptical of claims of bias against women. After being nominated by President Jimmy Carter, Ginsburg was confirmed to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on June 18, 1980. Her service on the appellate court ended August 9, 1993, and she was sworn in as a U.S. Supreme Court Justice on August 10, 1993, becoming the second female justice ever appointed at that time. After frankly answering questions about abortion and discrimination at her Senate confirmation hearings, Ginsburg was confirmed by a"
"September 25, 1979, and received her commission on September 26, 1979. She assumed senior status on March 1, 1999, serving in that status until her death. In 1981 President Ronald Reagan had narrowed his search for Justice Potter Stewart's replacement to Kennedy and Sandra Day O'Connor as the first woman on the United States Supreme Court, before eventually choosing O'Connor for the vacant seat. Kennedy was also on the shortlist for the seat vacated by the departure of William O. Douglas, which eventually went to John Paul Stevens. Kennedy authored the majority opinion in ""Connection Distributing Co. v. Keisler"", 505"
"supreme court again until 1982, when on July 25 Ruby Kless Sondock became the court's first regular female justice, when she was appointed to replace Associate Justice James G. Denton who had died of a heart attack. Sondock served the remainder of Denton's term, which ended on December 31, 1982, but did not seek election to the Supreme Court in her own right. Rose Spector became the first woman elected to the court in 1992 and served until 1998 when she was defeated by Harriet O'Neill. It would be 66 years (2015) before another state high court, this time the"
"to the city of Tombstone, Arizona from 1962 to 1965. On June 2, 1980, Carroll was nominated by President Jimmy Carter to a new seat on the United States District Court for the District of Arizona created by 92 Stat. 1629. Carroll was confirmed by the United States Senate on June 26, 1980, received his commission on June 30, 1980, and was sworn in on September 12, 1980. On October 10, 1994, Carroll assumed senior status, opening up a judgeship position for Roslyn O. Silver, the first woman judge appointed in the District of Arizona. From 1994 to 2008, although"
"Ruby Kless Sondock Justice Ruby Kless Sondock (born April 26, 1926 in Houston, Texas) was the first woman to serve on the Texas Supreme Court. Sondock initially attended the University of Houston Law Center in order to become a legal secretary, but she was admitted to the state bar a year before her graduation as valedictorian of her class (1962). Sondock was appointed to the Harris County Domestic Relations Court No. 5 in 1973 and to the 234th District Court in 1977. Justice Sondock was the first woman to be appointed as a State District Judge in Harris County, Texas."
"Maricopa County, the first woman to serve in that role. In 1960, Lockwood was elected to the Arizona Supreme Court. She served as chief justice from 1965 to 1966 and 1970 to 1971, become the first female chief justice of a state supreme court in the United States. She retired from the court in 1975 and died three years later. Lockwood was born on March 24, 1903, in Douglas, Arizona Territory, a mining town, to Daisy Maude Lincoln and Alfred Collins Lockwood. Her father was an attorney and later chief justice of the Arizona Supreme Court. In 1913, the family"
"Lyndon B. Johnson. Lockwood would have become the first woman and the first Arizonan to serve on the Court, but she did not receive a nomination. (The first woman appointed to the Court later became then-Arizona Court of Appeals Judge Sandra Day O'Connor, who was appointed in 1981). Lockwood retired from the court in 1975. She died on September 23, 1977, at Phoenix’s Good Samaritan Hospital. The urn which holds her cremated remains is located in the Greenwood/Memory Lawn Mortuary & Cemetery south columbarium, niche #113. She was posthumously inducted into the Arizona Women's Hall of Fame in 1981. Lorna"
"Diane Barz Diane MacDonald Barz (August 18, 1943 – May 14, 2014) was an American judge. She was the first woman to serve as a member of the Montana Supreme Court, a position she held from September 1989 to 1990. She also served as an assistant United States Attorney from 1991 to 1994. Born in Bozeman, Montana, Barz graduated from high school in Concord, California and then received her bachelor's degree from Whitworth University and her law degree from University of Montana Law School. Barz served as a law clerk in the Montana Supreme Court and was a public defender"
"Tempe Historic Property Register. Dudley W. Windes Charles Dudley Warner Windes (August 24, 1888 - May, 1972) was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Arizona from January 13, 1952 to January 5, 1959. Born to Romulus Adolphus Windes and Magadalene Ann Reid, Arizona's State Vital records accidentally listed Windes as a ""female"" at birth and omitted part of his name. Romulus Windes, was Arizona's first Baptist minister. Windes married Hope G. Anderson, they had three sons, Dudley, Honor and John. Windes studied law at Indiana University, graduating in 1914. In 1915, Windes begins practicing law in Tempe. After taking"
"Sondock was appointed to the Texas Supreme Court following the death of Associate Justice James G. Denton on June 10, 1982. Sondock served from June 25 to December 31 of that year, completing Denton's term. Sondock declined to seek election to the Supreme Court and instead ran successfully for reelection to her District Court seat the following year. Sondock was the court's first female justice, with the exception of a special all-woman court convened in 1925 to hear a single case. Justice Sondock formed part of the majority of the Texas Supreme Court in the landmark case of ""Helicopteros Nacionales"